60s radicals and their sympathizers
serve refreshments outside the mayor's home to protest
the city not giving them a permit for a "camporee" at
Tompkins Square Park or East River Park. Michael Bloomberg's
townhouse, 79th Street and Fifth Avenue.

8/24, 7 p.m.

Paula Revere's Ride

Greene Dragon and TIME'S UP alert New Yorkers
that "The Republicans are coming!" via this bike ride
down Lexington Avenue, which makes a pitstop at Madison
Square Garden before winding it's way to Webster Hall
for a Counter-RNC Kickoff Party. Bring a bike and wear
red, white, and blue. Sherman Statue, southeast corner
of Central Park.

The Howl festival's closing-night party features smart
folkie Dan Bern and activist groups like the ironists
known as Billionaires for Bush. Webster Hall, 125 East
11th Street, $10.

all day

The Museums Of Lower Manhattan

Anticipating large numbers of convention-week visitors
to ground zero, a group of fifteen downtown institutions
has come together to offer walking tours and special exhibitions.
Go to nystartshere.com
for more information.

8/26, 5 p.m.

Democracy Uprising

A group of protesters who marched 258 miles
from the Democratic convention in Boston to New York arrives
in the city. Organized in protest of the two-party system,
the marchers make their way down through the Bronx and
expect to arrive in Columbus Circle at 5 p.m.

8/26, 7 p.m.

The Anti-Convention Concert

Williamsburg's Warsaw rock club hosts the
first of a pair of shows benefiting Not In Our Name, an
anti-Bush group dedicated to defending civil liberties
and opposing war. Tonight's gig features reggae band John
Brown's Body. Warsaw, 261 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn, $23.